Lead Engineer

Position:
Lead Engineer

Location:

Good Samaritan Hospital;
Downers Grove, IL.

Employment Type:

Full-Time Shift: 1st Shift (Mostly Monday-Friday with flexibility for training and projects) Base Pay Range

$37.50/hr – $56.25/hr

• Provides effective supervision and management of the associates assigned to the engineering team.
• Works collaboratively with the manager, establishes goals and quality standards; drives goal attainment specific to reductions in energy utilization; regularly reports on goal attainment status.
• Collaborates with the department manager on matters of hiring, progressive discipline, rewards and recognition of associates.
• Establishes work schedules for the engineering staff to assure proper coverage, optimizing the use of vendor services to supplement the work of the associates assigned to the engineering team.
• Approves overtime as warranted and edits time cards accordingly.
• Prioritizes and schedules associates to perform routine, non‑routine, preventative and predictive maintenance activities to ensure proper operation of HVAC equipment.
• Leads the onboarding process for orientation and training of the engineering team to increase knowledge, skills, and proficiency.
• Inspects and ensures that all work is done to the highest quality standards, providing regular performance feedback to the associates and drafts annual performance appraisals.
• Provides timely and accurate recommendations and supporting background for the annual operating budget and for the five‑year infrastructure capital plan; manages expenditures to meet department budget goals.
• Chairs the Utilities Management Sub‑Committee and is responsible for developing and executing the objectives of the Utility Management Plan.
• Oversees administrative actions required of the engineering team.
• Establishes, monitors, and improves the preventive maintenance program and procedures for HVAC and other equipment as assigned per manufacturer’s recommendations and regulatory standards.
• Ensures stationary engineers and vendors complete assigned PMs by the established deadlines.
• Ensures all new equipment is inventoried and that preventative/predictive tasks and frequencies consistent with manufacturer’s recommendations and regulatory standards are established and properly entered into CMMS.
• Ensures that staff properly documents all actions taken through log books or CMMS work orders.
• Maintains documentation required by regulatory standards in a format easily retrieved and audited.
• Takes appropriate action on problems reported that were not resolved during the PM inspections using the CMMS to track resolution.
• Inspects and ensures work is done to the highest quality standards.
• Identifies significant problems found during inspections and proposes a course of action to the manager in a timely and accurate manner.
• Ensures that assigned equipment and mechanical rooms are maintained to a high standard.
• Supervises HVAC equipment repairs and installations as required by the situation in a timely and workmanlike fashion, including work by vendors.
• Troubleshoots HVAC equipment problems or failures to determine the cause of the failure in a timely manner.
• Provides assistance to engineering staff as warranted by the situation; establishes a plan for correction with the assistance of service vendors or consultants as warranted.
• Coordinates HVAC service outages to ensure minimal impact on the hospital and patient care.
• Oversees approval and funding of vendor‑provided repairs.
• Inspects and ensures that all work performed by stationary engineers, vendors and contractors is done to the highest quality standards.
• Documents actions taken in the computerized maintenance management system and log books.
• Ensures that proper safety and infection control procedures are followed.
• Establishes and executes an effective annual retro‑commissioning program for assigned HVAC equipment.
• Establishes, monitors, and improves the standard operating procedures for all campus heating, ventilation and air‑conditioning equipment, including high‑pressure boilers, steam absorption and centrifugal chillers, cooling towers, fans, pumps and systems, to optimize efficiency, safety and…